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(dating from 1924) and his colleagues, besides about five hundred
records of orchestral and vocal music made by various WPA
groups, together with a few programs broadcast under the Rural
Electrification Administration and by the Office of Coordinator of
Inter-American Affairs. Also belonging to this Library, but on
deposit in the National Archives, are nearly 300,000 feet of mo-
tion-picture film of Roosevelt and his associates, chiefly newsreel
shots from 1928 onward.

The career of R D. Roosevelt is set forth in pictures and car-
toons in Don Wharton, ed., The Roosevelt Omnibus (N. Y.,
1934), and biographically in Sara D. Roosevelt, My Boy Frank-
lin (N. Y., 1933), Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is Mg Story (N.
Y., 1939), E. 1C Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt: a Career in
Progressive Democracy (N. Y., 1931), Emil Ludwig, Roosevelt:
a Study in Fortune and Power (N. Y., 1938), and Gerald John-
son, Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat? (N. Y., 1941). Hostile
are J. P. Warburg, Hell Bent for Election (N. Y., 1935), and
J. T. Flynn, Country Squire in the White House (N. Y., 1940).
Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner, Men around the President (N.
Y., 1939), describes the cabinet and brain trust toward the end
of the second administration.

Among memoirs Raymond Moley, After Seven Years (N. Y.,
1939), reflects disenchantment, and Frances Perkins, The Roose-
velt I Knew (N. Y., 1946), approbation. H. A. Wallace, New
Frontiers (N. Y., 1934), comments upon the first year of agri-
culture's New Deal; Frances Perkins, People at Work (N, Y.,
1934), reviews the labor program; and H* L. Hopkins, Spending
to Save (N. Y., 1936), presents a close-up of the FERA and
WPA. In telling the story of the PWA and also of conservation,
H. L. Ickes, Back to Work (N. Y., 1935) and Autobiography
of a Curmudgeon (N. Y., 1943), are matched in pungency only
by H. S. Johnson's narrative of the NRA, The Blue Eagle from
Egg to Earth (N. Y., 1935). J. A. Farley writes spiritedly of
politics in Behind the Ballots (N. Y., 1938), while D. C. Roper's
account of the department of commerce in Fifty Years of Public
Life (Durham, N. C., 1941) is colorless. The most copious docu-
ment kept by a high official of the New-Deal, Henry Morgen-
thau, jr/s, diary, is as yet unpublished. L H. Hoover, Forty-Two
Years in the White House (Boston, 1934), touches upon both